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Show SMALL OUT ON $50,000 BOND Battle May Come Over Proposed Change Of Venue Springfield, 111. A Jegal battle over n change of venue utny bo tho next . phnso In tho fight of Governor Len Small against charges of embezzlement embezzle-ment during his term ns stato treasurer treas-urer In 1017 and 1018. Ills arrest Tuesday after dherlff Henry Mester had beselged the governor's office In tho stntehouso lessened tho tension at tho cnpltol which hns been nt high pitch-since tho Indictments wero returned re-turned July SO, Tho governor Wednesday went about hla oxecuttvo duties as usual having given bond for 550,000, nnd It was bo-lieved bo-lieved In many quarters that no further fur-ther action would bo tnken until thq governor nnd his Indicted nssoclntcs, Lieutenant Governor Fred Sterling and Vernon Curtis, tho latter a banker of Grant Park, III., appenred In tho Sangnnlon county circuit court on tho first Monday In September to answer to tho indictments'. |